“The end is terrible, cruel”
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Everyone believed it.
Until the last minutes of the World Cup final match on Sunday, December 18, supporters, players, the coach and even the President of the Republic believed it possible to add a third star to the Blues jersey.
And yet it is indeed the Argentinians who had the privilege.
Painful moment for aficionados of the discipline.
The day after the defeat, Monday, December 19, Apolline de Malherbe took advantage of her program “Face à face” broadcast on RMC and BFMTV to invite Emmanuel Petit, former French international footballer, and Daniel Riolo, sports journalist.
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"I put myself in the place of the players, in the place of the competitor and I still have a lot of regrets about this final"
, begins the world champion in 1998. Daniel Riolo
"It may take a little time to understand that we witnessed perhaps the most beautiful final in the history of the World Cup.
France, by playing in this final and by offering us this suspense and this batch of incredible emotions, has written a page in the history of football
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He affirms it, it remains complicated after such a battle and defeat to store this match in the cupboard of memories but in a few days
"we will have to draw more positive than negative from all that we lived in Doha for a month"
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"It's heavy"
The host then returns to the sadness and loneliness of striker Kylian Mbappé at the end of the match.
And when the player clearly shows the desire to be alone, President Emmanuel Macron comes to console him anyway.
"I thought he was a coach
," says Emmanuel Petit before being approved by his sidekick.
“I want it to be passionate and at first, it can even please those who love football.
We have a president who loves football and who undoubtedly knows about it, but in the end his desire to occupy space permanently, it almost became a bit heavy all the same
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“Let him comfort Mbappé once, ok but he was always behind him. So Mbappé was the unfortunate hero of this final and we understood that Macron wanted to be next to the hero of the final, to be constantly present. I don't know if he had agreed with the director, but we have the impression that he wanted to be in all the shots, it's a bit exaggerated
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Daniel Riolo closes the debate, while provoking laughter from Emmanuel Petit, advising the President of the Republic that rather than worrying about whether coach Didier Deschamps should stay,
"he should rather worry about whether the president of the French Football Federation, Noël Le Graët, must not leave
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In effect,
